Do you offer “rush” service for reed orders?
Sorry. While one of our priorities is getting your reeds to you quickly, our number one priority is maintaining the quality of those reeds. No, rush shipping is not available.
What about soaking my reed?
Soaking is a very important part of bringing your reed to life. An unsoaked reed won’t make a sound while an oversoaked reed will be flatter than a pancake. Remember, reeds are “air-breathing” animals. Reeds at MKL Reeds don’t need very much soaking to play their best. The reeds are scraped well and too much water will actually clog the fibers of the reed, sort of “drowning” it. You will get the best stability, pitch, response and overall tone from your reed if you don’t “soak” AT ALL. We suggest a quick dip in water and then allowing the reed to sit outside of the water for a minute or two. Then, blow out the excess water, pop it in your oboe, and you’ll be ready with a great reed.
My reed is damaged, what can I do?
All of our reeds are GUARANTEED. To read more about it, just click here and then
contact us right away. If you wait weeks to contact us, we will not be able to honor this guarantee.
What’s the difference between your types of reeds?
There are only two types of reeds, reeds that work for you and reeds that don’t. So we don’t get into the normal game of separating reeds into 45 different flavors like hard, medium, medium hard, light and easy. You get the point. It’s confusing and completely subjective. A “medium” reed for us might not be for you. So we keep it simple. We sell reeds that work.
If you’d like to get a reed that has a little more resistance, you can… or you can ask for one that has a little less resistance. Those are your only choices 
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How do you know if you'll like an oboe reed before you play it? You can't. When the rubber finally hits the road, it hardly matters if the reed is a great one, perfectly customized to your every desire, if it just plain doesn't work well for you. 
My name is Maryn Leister. I am a graduate of the Juilliard Pre-College Division and the Eastman School of Music, where I was a student of Richard Killmer. After graduating from college, I lived in Nashville, TN, then headed to Knoxville, TN, New York City, and finally Chicago...
